28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Peshmerga

Peshmerga

director: Bernard-Henri Lévy
original title: Peshmerga
country: France, Iraq
year: 2016
running time: 92 min.

synopsis

This wartime essay spends several months following the Kurdish fighters in their struggle against the Islamic State. Rich on information, the film is based on an emotional contrast between visually captivating footage of battle and the consequences of war, accompanied by the filmmaker’s strongly rhetorical commentary.

biography

French philosopher and intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948) has written numerous books (e.g., Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth Century, 2000, English 2003) and has also worked as a war reporter. He co-directed Bosna!, which won an award at the 1994 festival in Cannes.

more about film

director: Bernard-Henri Lévy
producer: François Margolin
photography: Ala Hoshyar Tayyeb, Olivier Jacquin
editing: Camille Lotteau
music: Nicolas Ker
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